RASE Community Resources

VIDEOS

Scene on Radio: John Biewen Podcast: Seeing White – Scene on Radio

Historic Chevy Chase DC www.historicchevychasedc.org

Recording of a conversation with descendants of a displaced Black community in Chevy Chase DC: https://www.historicchevychasedc.org/news-archive/recording-now-available-a-conversation-with-descendants-of-a-displaced-black-community/

Oral history interview with James Fisher, 8^th generation descendant of George Pointer, and genealogist Tanya Hardy: https://www.historicchevychasedc.org/oral-histories/james-fisher-and-tanya-hardy/

DC Council hearing on proposed legislation proposed by At-Large CM McDuffie for a reparations commission and fund on 15 June 2023 with several dozen expert witnesses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU6aRVF26DQ

Author Talk: “Just Action” with Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein at MLK Library, Washington DC – YouTube

[The Color of Law] | C-SPAN.org

PROGRAMS

The Friendship Place Anti-Racism Series: https://friendshipplace.org/anti-racism/

Test Yourself on Hidden Bias: https://www.learningforjustice.org/professional-development/test-yourself-for-hidden-bias

Project Implicit Test, Harvard University: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

The Anti-Racist Table – A free 30-day Self-Paced Program

BOOKS

Torrey, Barbara Boyle and Clara Myrick Green, Between Freedom and Equality. The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2021: https://betweenfreedomandequality.org/

Flanagan, Neil, “The Battle of Fort Reno,” City Paper (2 November 2017), accessed at https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/20981322/the-battle-of-fort-reno

Rowley, William D. Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands. Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 1996: https://archive.org/details/reclaimingaridwe0000rowl/page/n7/mode/2up

Kahlenberg, Richard D. Excluded. How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See. Public Affairs, 2023: https://www.amazon.com/Excluded-Zoning-NIMBYism-Class-Build-ebook/dp/B0BLSDNS7R/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law. A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Liveright 2017: https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregatedebook/dp/B01M8IWJT2/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1337006710965830&hvadid=83562991591658&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=44862&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-83563278518670%3Aloc-190&hydadcr=10275_10725917&keywords=rothstein+richard+the+color+of+law&qid=1697836886&sr=8-1•

Desmond, Matthew. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Crown Books, 2016: https://www.amazon.com/EvictedPovertyProfitAmericanCityebook/dp/B010ZXKCAO/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1IFBH7G8CL57G&keywords=Desmond%2C+Matthew.+Evicted.&qid=1697833525&s=books&sprefix=desmond%2C+matthew.+evicted.%2Cstripbooks%2C48&sr=1-1

Fogelson, Robert M., Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Fogelson%2C+.%2C+Bourgeois+Nightmares%3A+Suburbia%2C+18701930&crid=8HLN3CKWNOL0&sprefix=fogelson%2C+.%2C+bourgeois+nightmares+suburbia%2C+1870-1930+%2Caps%2C46&ref=nb_sb_noss•

Desmond, Matthew. Poverty, By America. Crown Books, 2023: https://www.amazon.com/PovertyAmericaMatthewDesmondebook/dp/B0B4R1J4R5/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1IFBH7G8CL57G&keywords=Desmond%2C+Matthew.+Evicted.&qid=1697833701&s=books&sprefix=desmond%2C+matthew.+evicted.%2Cstripbooks%2C48&sr=1-4

Green, Constance. The Secret City. History of Race Relations in the Nation’s Capital. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967: https://archive.org/details/secretcityhistor00gree/page/n5/mode/2up

Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. Living In, Living Out. African American Domestics in Washington DC, 1910-1940. Smithsonian Press, 1994:https://www.amazon.com/Living-Out-Domestics-Washington19101940/dp/1560983620/ref=sr_1_10?crid=2VNJ6CUYQ0Z5S&keywords=Living+In%2C+Living+Out&qid=1697837361&sprefix=living+in%2C+living+out%2Caps%2C50&sr=8-10

Austin, Paula. Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC. Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life. NYU Press, 2019: https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Age-Jim-Crow-Navigating-ebook/dp/B07Q4D6H2Z/ref=sr_1_1?crid=EI0I4ZUKB1SI&keywords=Coming+of+Age+in+Jim+Crow+DC&qid=1697837157&sprefix=coming+of+age+in+jim+crow+dc%2Caps%2C51&sr=8-1

Asch, Chris Myers and George Derek Musgrove. Chocolate City. A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017: https://www.amazon.com/Chocolate-City-History-Democracy-Nations/dp/1469654725/ref=asc_df_1469654725?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80401868718964&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584001422604238&psc=1

Johnson, Haynes Bonner. Dusk at the Mountain. The Negro. The Nation. And the Capital. New York: Doubleday, 1963: https://www.amazon.com/Dusk-Mountain-Negro-NationCapital/dp/1258329344

Quigley, Joan. Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital. NY: Oxford University press, 2016. https://www.amazon.com/Just-Another-Southern-Town-Struggle-ebook/dp/B017WM1DZ4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FH7K6QP39B3M&keywords=quigley+just+another+southern+town&qid=1697835322&sprefix=quigley+just+another+southern+town%2Caps%2C54&sr=8-1

Ruble, Blair A., Washington’s U Street. A Biography. Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2012: https://www.amazon.com/WashingtonsStreetBiographyBlairRuble/dp/1421405946

Amos, Alcione. Barry Farm-Hillsdale in Anacostia. A Historic African American Community. The History Press, 2021: https://www.amazon.com/Barry-Farm-Hillsdale-Anacostia-Historic-Communityebook/dp/B08Q2T99R3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XVRCPPP9D9XZ&keywords=Amos%2C+Alcione.+Barry+FarmHillsdale+in+Anacostia.+A+Historic+African+American+Community.&qid=1697834007&s=books&sprefix=amos%2C+alcione.+barry+farmhillsdale+in+anacostia.+a+historic+african+american+community.+%2Cstripbooks%2C46&sr=1-1

Borchert, James. Alley Life in Washington. Family, Community, Religion and Folklife in the City, 1870-1970. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1982: https://archive.org/details/alleylifeinwashi0000borc/page/n7/mode/2up• Kim Williams, Hidden Alleyways in Washington DC. Washington: A History. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2023: www.press.georgetown.edu

Gates, Henry Louis and Andrew Curran, eds. Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter for the Eighteenth Century Invention of Race. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2022: https://www.amazon.com/Whos-Black-Why-Eighteenth-Century-Invention/dp/0674244265/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1330410694208480&hvadid=83150946010570&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=44862&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-83151665127224%3Aloc190&hydadcr=20695_13405629&keywords=who%27s+black+and+why&qid=1697834314&sr=8-1

King, Charles E. Gods of the Upper Air. How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century. Anchor Books, 2019: https://www.amazon.com/GodsUpperAirAnthropologistsReinventedebook/dp/B07KNVLPPJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=SQ6U2PGFIXW8&keywords=King%2C+Charles+E.+Gods+of+the+Upper+Air&qid=1697836495&s=books&sprefix=king%2C+charles+e.+gods+of+the+upper+air%2Cstripbooks%2C58&sr=1-1

Kendi, Ibram X. How to be an Antiracist. One World, 2019: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-AntiracistIbramKendiebook/dp/B07D2364N5/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2J267PAC71866&keywords=how+to+be+an+antiracist+by+ibram+x.+kendi&qid=1697834727&sprefix=how+to+be+an+anti%2Caps%2C69&sr=8-1

Glaude, Eddie S. Jr. Begin Again. James Baldwin’s America and the Urgent Lessons for Our Own. Crown, 2020: https://www.amazon.com/Begin-Again-Baldwins-America-Lessons-ebook/dp/B07RFVCB11/ref=sr_1_2?crid=36PQ5GNWJ7V5D&keywords=Glaude%2C+Eddie+S.+Jr.+Begin+Again.+James+Baldwin%E2%80%99s+America+and+the+Urgent+Lessons+for+Today&qid=1697838750&s=digitaltext&sprefix=glaude%2C+eddie+s.+jr.+begin+again.+james+baldwin+s+america+and+the+urgent+lessons+for+today%2Cdigital-text%2C66&sr=1-2

Dyson, Michael Eric. Long Time Coming. Reckoning with Race in America. St. Martin’s Press, 2020:https://www.amazon.com/LongTimeComingReckoningAmericaebook/dp/B08G49FY4J/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LJJSR06I70I3&keywords=Dyson%2C+Michael+Eric.+Long+Time+Coming.+Reckoning+with+Race+in+America.&qid=1697838195&sprefix=dyson%2C+michael+eric.+long+time+coming.+reckoning+with+race+in+america.+%2Caps%2C70&sr=8-1

Taylor, Michael. The Interest. How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery. Vintage, 2021: https://www.amazon.com/TheInterest/dp/152911098X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MCP8LCQ6A5YJ&keywords=Taylor%2C+Michael.+The+Interest.+How+the+British+Establishment+Resisted+the+Abolition+of+Slavery.&qid=1697837661&sprefix=taylor%2C+michael.+the+interest.+how+the+british+establishment+resisted+the+abolition+of+slavery.%2Caps%2C56&sr=8-1

DuBois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction in America. Oxford, 1935: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Reconstruction-America-Oxford-Bois-ebook/dp/B00IJC320G/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Hannah Jones, Nikole. The 1619 Project. A New Origin Story. One World, 2021: https://www.amazon.com/1619ProjectNewOriginStoryebook/dp/B08XYPW4G7/ref=sr_1_2?adgrpid=1341404757881034&hvadid=83837869588388&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=44862&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-83838156871134%3Aloc-190&hydadcr=14459_10611954&keywords=1619&qid=1697837761&sr=8-2

French, Howard. Born in Blackness. Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. Liveright, 2021: https://www.amazon.com/Born-Blackness-AfricaAfricansMakingebook/dp/B08X8LGRY1/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=1331510961685361&hvadid=83219694475774&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=44862&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-83220468764701%3Aloc-190&hydadcr=7633_13467846&keywords=born+in+blackness+by+howard+french&qid=1697837951&sr=8-14)

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